April 11, 2016 + + + GE Oil & Gas
has started production of four high pressure, high temperature
(HP/HT) dynamic flexible risers destined for the world’s largest floating
liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, Prelude, to be operated by Shell,
located 250km off the coast of Western Australia. FLNG is a
revolution in natural gas production that promises to improve the
viability of smaller, more remote or environmentally-sensitive fields that
would otherwise be too costly or difficult to develop. Working together to
unlock these vital ‘stranded’ resources, GE has partnered with Shell on
the project since 2011, following an initial order for turbomachinery
equipment ... Read more

April 06, 2016 + + + A well test via the Wisting
Central II horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea has recorded a
flow rate of more than 5,000 boe/d and has therefore proved the viability
of shallow horizontal drilling needed to develop Wisting field, OMV AS
reported.
The objectives of the well, drilled in Wisting field about
310 km north of Hammerfest, were to confirm the potential of the discovery
by proving the presence of hydrocarbons in the undrilled Wisting Central
South and Central West segments, and to prove the technical concept of
long-reach horizontal wells in a shallow reservoir about 250 m below
seabed ... read more

April 4, 2016 + + + Aker Solutions' maintenance, modifications
and operations (MMO) business in Norway secured a contract from Statoil
for preliminary engineering work to enable a tie-in of the Utgard gas and
condensate field to the Sleipner facilities in the North Sea. ... Read more

2016, March 09 + + + Saudi Aramco plans to nearly double its natural
gas production to 23 standard bcfd in 10 years, Aramco Chief Executive
Officer Amin Nasser told an industry conference in Jubail on Mar. 8. Having already increased its gas output to more than 12 bcfd from 3.5
billion bcfd during the early 1980s, Aramco has set a production goal for
the coming decade ... Read more

Feb 26, 2016 + + + Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the
award of a majorcontract by BP, and partner DEA (Deutsche
Erdoel AG), for the development of the Giza, Fayoum and Raven
subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt. This is the second phase of the
West Nile Delta project, where the field development will be at depths of
up to approximately 800 metres.
The contract scope includes engineering, procurement, installation and
pre-commissioning of the subsea infrastructure from twelve wells, with 80
kilometres of umbilicals and 220 kilometres of pipelines. It also includes
the installation of the export lines from the subsea location to the Idku
terminal ... read more

Dec. 18, 2015 + + + Aker Solutions and Saipem agreed to cooperate on
targeted subsea oil and gas development projects worldwide. The companies
will through a joint work group identify opportunities where they can
create value for customers by combining Aker Solutions' capabilities in
subsea products and technologies with Saipem's assets and expertise in
engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea
infrastructures ... read more

Dec. 10, 2015 + + + Over the past 15 years, subsea technology has
moved from subsea wells, manifolds, flowlines, and templates, to include
subsea boosting, separation, and now compression. In the near
future, deepwater wells will require more complex subsea equipment.
Looking further ahead, the industry expects to see automated production
entirely located on the seabed, piping oil and gas directly to shore
through the “subsea factory” concept ... read more

Nov. 26, 2015 + + + Aker Solutions won a framework agreement
to provide maintenance and modifications services at BP-operated oil and
gas fields offshore Norway. The contract has a fixed period of five years
valued at as much as NOK 3.2 billion. It also contains options to extend
the agreement by as many as four years. The accord starts on December 1,
2015 on expiration of an existing agreement for similar services ... read more

Oct. 2015 + + + LEWA has finished its biggest package up to today: The LEWA
Chemical Injection Package for offshore application on a Brazilian
floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) weighs 715 tons and
measures 21.3 x 21 x 11 meters. In this ambitious project, our engineers
faced major challenges. But in more than 7,500 hours of engineering, the
LEWA giant was successfully realized. With this special solution, LEWA
once again confirms its unique know-how as a leading global pump
manufacturer and system integrator... read more

Oct. 23, 2015 + + + ABB has delivered its second
power-from-shore system to the Statoil-operated Troll A gas platform in
the North Sea, 70 km (43 mi) west of the Kollsnes gas treatment plant near
Bergen.
As with the previous system, the aim is to power two compressors fitted to
the platform’s topsides to compensate for decreasing pressure in the
reservoir. The 3,000- ton compressor modules, which were installed last
year, began operating earlier this month.
Electricity is supplied using ABB’s HVDC Light technology, which takes
alternating current (AC) from Norway’s national grid, converting it to
direct current (DC) and transmitting it to the platform via 70 km-long
cables ... read more

Oct. 10, 2015 + + + Statoil and partners Petoro and OMV have brought onstream the world’s
first subsea wet gas compression on the seafloor of the Gullfaks field in
the North Sea.
The technology, designed and supplied by OneSubsea, is
expected to increase recovery by 22 MMboe and extend plateau production
from the Gullfaks South Brent reservoir by around two years ... read more

On Sept. 17. 2015, Norwegian Statoil announced the production start of the
world’s first subsea gas compression facility at the Åsgard field in the
Norwegian Sea. The facility features two MAN Diesel & Turbo HOFIM™
motor-compressor units which were supplied to Statoil’s contractor Aker
Solutions ... more